Vidarbha won its first Vijay Hazare Trophy title. Vidarbha achieved a 38-run victory over Saurashtra in a high-scoring final at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
- Vidarbha won its first Vijay Hazare Trophy title with a शानदार 38-run victory over Saurashtra in a high-scoring final at the BCCI Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
- The disciplined bowling performance led by Atharva Taide’s brilliant 128 runs and Yash Thakur’s four wickets helped them overcome the pain of last year’s final loss to Karnataka.
- Asked to bat first, Vidarbha scored 317 runs, in which Taide’s 118-ball innings made a significant contribution.
- The opening batsman, who had scored more than 50 runs three times in this year’s tournament but could not score a century, finally achieved success by scoring a century in the most important match against the two-time former winners.
- Brief score: Vidarbha 317/8 in 50 overs (Atharva Taide 128, Yash Rathod 54; Ankur Panwar 4-65) beat Saurashtra 279 in 48.5 overs (Prerak Mankad 88, Chirag Jani 64; Yash Thakur 4-50, Nachiket Bhute 3-46) by 38 runs.
Editions of Vijay Hazare Trophy
- The 33rd edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 was held from December 24, 2025 to January 18, 2026. The tournament has 32 teams, which are divided into four groups, with matches played in five cities and 18 venues.
- The 2024-25 Vijay Hazare Trophy was the 32nd edition. It was played from December 21, 2024 to January 18, 2025. In the final, Karnataka defeated Vidarbha by 36 runs to win their fifth title.
- The first edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy (then known as the Ranji One Day Trophy) in 2000-01 was won by Mumbai, which defeated Railways in the final to become the first champion of India’s premier domestic one-day cricket tournament.
About Vijay Hazare Trophy
- It is a cricket tournament played in India. It is organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and state and city teams compete in it in a league and playoff format.
- Along with the Inter-Zonal Deodhar Trophy, it forms the top level of List A cricket in the country, and is an important feeder tournament for selection to the Indian national cricket team. Each team has 50 overs in a match, similar to One Day International matches. It was initially a zonal tournament, and became a national tournament in the year 2002.
- The Vijay Hazare Trophy started in the 1993-94 season as the Ranji One Day Trophy, which was the List A equivalent of the first-class Ranji Trophy.
- The most successful teams of that era were Bombay/Mumbai (8 titles) and Bengal (6 titles).
- It became a national competition in 2002-03, in which every year a national champion was crowned in a knockout stage.
- Since then the most successful teams have been Tamil Nadu and Karnataka (5 titles each). For the 2007-08 edition, it was named in honour of Vijay Hazare.
